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 How to Keep Your PC Green 

New York Times offers tips on cutting computer energy use

Oct 3, 08 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - You’ve got the Prius and the reusable shopping bags, but did you know a PC and monitor perpetually left on use more than twice the kilowatt-hours per year consumed by a fridge? The New York Times reports what you can do to slow your computer’s energy drain:
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energy • environment • computer • green products

Clone-Maker Files Countersuit Against Apple

Psystar alleges trust violations, tries to open market for OS X

Aug 29, 08 8:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mac clone-maker Psystar countersued Apple this week and charged it with violating antitrust law, PC Magazine reports. The battle centers on a provision in Apple’s end user agreement that prohibits non-Mac hardware from running its operating system. Psystar admits to selling computers with such hardware, and says they... More »

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Apple • antitrust • lawsuit • Macintosh • copyright infringement • computer • Psystar

OPINION

 Tips for Candidates 
 on Cyber Security 

Next president must find right balance of regulation for internet safegaurds

Aug 7, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Noting that both candidates have plans to ensure our collective cyber security, Bruce Schneier, in Wired, lays out some essential policy advice for the next president:
  • Use the government’s enormous purchasing power to make security software producers do better. Make security requirements for government software high, and those
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national security • Internet • markets • Internet security • cybercrime • hacking • computer • cyberspace

 10 Computers That
 Changed Everything 

Before the iMac, there were mega machines

Jul 16, 08 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Convenience is a given when it comes to today's PCs, but the machine you're reading this on has come a long way. Major transformations date as far back as the early 19th century. Live Science gives the back-story on 10 revolutionary computers.
  1. The Difference Engine, 1822: Designed by Charles
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technology • Intel • IBM • computer chip • desktop computers • computer • personal computers • Xerox PARC

 Tech Holds Ground Amid Slump 

Growth slow, but still up; unemployment below average—no dot-com bust here

Jul 9, 08 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite malaise in most sectors of the economy, the technology industry is weathering the downturn well, USA Today reports. Sales are up only 3% this year over 2007—a mediocre result, considering the industry usually grows by more than 10%—but with tech unemployment at 3.9% compared to 5.... More »

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technology • growth • credit crisis • computer • sales slump • tech industry • downturn

 Search Engines: How
 They're Reshaping Your Brain 

Is faster thinking always better?

Jun 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Although he’s thrilled with all the time he saves using the Internet for research and awed by the vast intellectual opportunities available to every web surfer, Nicholas Carr is a bit disconcerted that he no longer has the patience for reading books or long articles. With his netizen mind... More »

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artificial intelligence • Internet • reading • human intelligence • book • computer

Not Very PC: Why Typewriters Beat Computers

Fed up with tech snafus, some Brits reach for the Wite-Out

Jun 8, 08 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Favored by novelists and technophobes and sold out of car trunks, typewriters remain the implement of choice for some Brits, reports BBC. Despite their weight and Internet deficiencies, the tangible writing experience free from computer meltdowns or deletions may save the typewriter from extinction—at least for now. One sales... More »

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writing • creative writing • laptop • computer • typewriter • Fredrick Forsyth • Brother typewriters

Biology Class Is No Cut-Up for US Kids

More pupils duck dissections by doing them virtually

Jun 1, 08 7:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - More biology students are ducking icky frog and fetal pig dissections by doing them on computers, the AP reports. Animal rights activists, thrilled that 14 states let kids skip dissections, are helping get the interactive programs to schools. One West Virginia group donated software to a high school that spends... More »

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high school • animal rights • frogs • virtual imaging • computer • dissection

(Newser) - Windows and Safari mix like virus-vulnerable oil and water, Microsoft warns, and Windows users should stop surfing with Apple’s web browser until the security holes have been patched. The “blended threat” combines a bug in Safari that downloads files to the desktop automatically and a vulnerability in how... More »

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Microsoft • Apple • web browser • Microsoft Windows • Safari • computer virus • computer security • computer

MARKETS

 Mixed Day Yields Mixed Results 

Dell performance rallies tech; Commerce Department gives bad news

May 30, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks ended mixed after a seesaw session today, with strong performance by tech and energy shares contrasting with bad news on consumer spending and incomes, MarketWatch reports. The Dow closed down 7.90 at 12,638.32. The Nasdaq gained 14.34 to 2,522.66, while the S&P... More »

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technology • inflation • Dell • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • oil price • commodities • computer • S&P 500

Low-Income Buyers Make Brazil 5th-Biggest PC Market

More money and more credit fuel surge, helping Dell and HP

May 21, 08 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazilian consumers are putting better credit offers and growing wealth into computers, and HP and Dell are the beneficiaries. The country is now the 5th-biggest PC market in the world, and low-income buyers are fueling the boom there. Computer shipments rose 38% last year to 10.7 million, Bloomberg reports,... More »

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Latin America • Dell • Brazil • computer • Hewlett-Packard

One Laptop Per Child Embraces Windows XP

Move gives new life
to seemingly immortal operating system

May 17, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Microsoft has signed on to the One Laptop Per Child initiative—aimed at getting low-cost PCs to kids in poor countries—its Windows XP operating system is again getting a new jolt of life, reports InternetNews.com. The project originally used only free, open-source software such as Linux,... More »

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Microsoft • Linux • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Windows XP • open source • computer

OPINION

Get Over
XP 'Worship'

Accept Vista or leave Windows altogether
for another OS, columnist writes

May 15, 08 4:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nostalgia for Windows XP is misplaced, Rob Pegoraro argues in the Washington Post: Vista has its problems, but they’re not solved by XP, which is ill-equipped to face the “busy” and “brutish” modern Internet landscape. “XP is not something that needs to be ‘saved,... More »

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Internet • Microsoft Vista • operating system • Windows XP • computer

PRODUCT REVIEW

Subnotebooks Don't Quite Measure Up

Lenovo, Asus debut lightweights that are close, but not there

May 8, 08 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hamstrung by poor battery life, and burdened with an overly weighty Vista operating system that makes starting up a drag, a pair of new subnotebook computers offer a glimpse of what could be—but isn’t quite, writes Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg. Lenovo’s IdeaPad—a junior... More »

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IBM • Lenovo • laptop • computer • MacBook Air • Asus • subnotebooks

 Keyboards 
 'Dirtier Than
 Toilet Seats' 

Microbiologist warns that filthy keys can make people ill

May 1, 08 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A microbiologist studying computer keyboards discovered that some of them harbored more bacteria than the average toilet seat, the Guardian reports. The dirtiest—which had to be removed from an office—had 150 times the level of acceptable bacteria, putting the user at risk of catching bugs that cause diarrhea... More »

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E. coli • hygiene • bacteria • cleaning • dirt • computer • computer hardware

 IBM Raises Dividend 25% 

Firm paying out $2.5B, expecting $12B in stock buybacks

Apr 29, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - IBM raised its quarterly dividend for the thirteenth consecutive year today after posting strong Q1 earnings two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The firm expects to pay $2.5 billion to shareholders this year after raising its dividend 25%, from 40 to 50 cents. IBM also expects to... More »

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investors • IBM • shareholders • information technology • computer • stock buyback • first quarter earnings • dividend

World's Smallest Transistor Sets Path to Better Chips

Newfound material could replace silicon

Apr 18, 08 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists in England have created the world’s smallest transistor, the BBC reports. At 1 atom thick and 10 atoms wide, it could be the key to creating microchips beyond the power of silicon. The transistor is made of graphene, a single layer of graphite and an excellent conductor of... More »

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electricity • computer chip • silicon • semiconductor • transistor • computer • computer hardware • graphene

Quantum Internet
Gets Closer

New kind of Net would be automatically secure

Apr 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A recent quantum computing breakthrough is a step towards creating a quantum Internet—which would be "automatically secure," a researcher told Technology Review. A Northwestern University professor has created a fundamental element of a quantum computer, a quantum logic gate, within an optical fiber, where previous gates... More »

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Internet • computer • quantum computing • computing • supercomputer • quantum Internet • Prem Kumar • Northwestern University

Dell Jumps on Cheap Notebook Trend

Caters to emerging low-cost high-mobility market

Apr 10, 08 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cheap, small notebooks look like the next big thing. Dell today announced it was jumping into the burgeoning segment, which doesn’t quite have a name yet—some call them netbooks, others mini-notebooks, still others ultramobile PCs or UMPCs. Dell’s machine will start at $399, and sport a wee... More »

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Dell • laptop • PC makers • computer • Netbooks • low-cost PCs • UMPC • ultramobile PCs

 Feds Lift Ban on IBM Contracts  

IBM withdraws protest of lost EPA contract

Apr 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The government Thursday lifted a week-old ban that prevented IBM from competing for new federal contracts. In exchange, IBM agreed to withdraw its protest of an $84 million contract with the EPA it lost last year, and to refund any attorney fees and costs the Government Accountability Office paid to... More »

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contracts • IBM • federal investigation • Environmental Protection Agency • computer • government contracts • insider information

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